Lava Lite's New Website & The NEW Heritage Collection

[Dr. WHAT?!]

http://www.lavalamp.com/

The new Heritage Collection will be available to buy 10/28

**Updated the Heritage Collection will be released today on LavaLite Website at 10am CST. Heres a sneak peak!

*** http://lavalamp.com/heritage-collection ***

[Brad]

maybe so - perhaps due to heat loss from the holes in the base.  thanks for keeping us posted!

[Marley's Ghost]

I don't get bubbles, Rodrigo, I get one-sided flow when the small coil overlaps the larger one. 

I also have an older b/y Grande that I bought a 1" socket extender for last year, just to get it to flow.   
 
Rodrigo said:

Brad, after reading your post I went and compared the height of the bulb on my silver grande base compared to the first heritage grande and the heritage bulb sits lower than the silver base, but this replacement heritage sits higher than both by a lot.

Maybe they are trying to correct the sensitivity, it's been on for 1 hour now so I'll report back tonight on how the single coil with closer bulb does. Libby, my pink grande also gets the overlapped coil from now and then when it warms up and if I don't fix it, it creates bubbles of water. They all go away when I fix the coils though.

[Jeff]

Interesting on the bulb being moved closer...makes me want to get a newer base now...My heritage grande flows good once it gets warmed up but it takes almost 8 hours....which is adding up to a lot of wasted electricity for no joy :(  I too had to put an extender on my older purple/yellow grande (at the suggestion of Marely's Ghost) which got that one flowing like a champ now.  Also heats up to flow in just under 4 hours from cold. 

I wonder if they'll send replacement bases out if that corrects those temp issues?

Brad, I'll get you the cap code on the replacement Century tomorrow...I forgot before I turned it on tonight and its already hot.  Up too high on the shelf to see it without taking the globe down.

[Rodrigo]

A little update on the new grande. It's flowing amazingly now and been on for about 10 hours, it was flowing by 4.5-5 hours into the cycle. the wax is still a little transluscent and breaking in but the flow is awesome as per usual with these new grandes. I'll have to let it break in for a few cycles and then compare the two. The liquid is crystal clear and the flow may be even snakier than my first heritage but that could be due to the single coil maybe?

[Joanne]

YIPPIE !!!

Rodrigo said:

A little update on the new grande. It's flowing amazingly now and been on for about 10 hours, it was flowing by 4.5-5 hours into the cycle. the wax is still a little transluscent and breaking in but the flow is awesome as per usual with these new grandes. I'll have to let it break in for a few cycles and then compare the two. The liquid is crystal clear and the flow may be even snakier than my first heritage but that could be due to the single coil maybe?

[Cowmatian]

Please post pics/ videos of the "version 2" heritage grande. I can't imagine these grandes with better flow!

[Rodrigo]

I will collect a good video on the next cycle. This was just the first so i think some break in before a comparison would be good. But i would dare say that this new one warms up faster. I didnt do a side by side of the two from completely cold since i just got it earlier today and my other one was on overnight.

[Marley's Ghost]

I read the old threads on coils and it seems that several people had the older Grandes with only one large coil in them.  I checked my old Grande, made in 2001, and it has two.   Strangely, the middle coil is not that much smaller than the larger one, but is much larger than the smaller coil in the new Heritage Grande.  My old Grande spiked beautifully, but had no flow to speak of, just a huge hovering blob, even with the 1" socket extender I put in it.   It was also on a plug in dimmer if needed.

Now, my new Heritage Green Grande's small middle coil is still occasionally overlapping the large one on one side, which causes an "up one side" flow.   I have to remove that monster globe from the base and spin it gently to get the coils back in place, then all is well.  But it is happening more and more often.  This coil business is a mystery to me.   Why did LL take out the smaller coil in the "2nd version" of the Heritage Grande?   Any thoughts on that?    I'm wondering if mine even needs that smaller coil.  

[Rodrigo]

I can only assume that they put the bulbs closer to the globe to prevent the heat loss and mid-flow spikes but maybe when they made that change to the bulb position they also removed one coil to avoid the overlapping and maybe with the closer bulb 2 coils aren't needed.

[Rodrigo]

Also I noticed this lamp seems to have less wax than my other heritage grande.

[Phil Harris]

i ordered the green and pink grandes on black friday (with a purple/yellow too so 3 total) and i should have them this evening.  interesting that there is the 'v2.0' now, i presume that is what i will be getting?  I've been off the site awhile so I'm not all up to speed on the latest here.

[Ben]

Phil, you bought the same 3 as I did. I'm also curious to see the flow of Heritage vs. non-heritage, and new Heritage vs. old Heritage.

Phil Harris said:

i ordered the green and pink grandes on black friday (with a purple/yellow too so 3 total) and i should have them this evening.  interesting that there is the 'v2.0' now, i presume that is what i will be getting?  I've been off the site awhile so I'm not all up to speed on the latest here.